The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents

Three long stories and two short ones, ranging from the stone age to a future city of thirty million people. Includes A Story of the Days To Come, the closest Wells came to writing cyberpunk.

H. G. Wells

Thirty-three stories that Wells selected himself as the ones worth keeping, with his own introduction explaining how he wrote them. The single best entry point to his short fiction.

H. G. Wells